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Russia would fill power vacuum in Mali

The FDP defense expert Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann warns against a rapid withdrawal of Western troops from the African crisis state of Mali.

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Russia would fill power vacuum in Mali

The FDP defense expert Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann warns against a rapid withdrawal of Western troops from the African crisis state of Mali. "At the moment when Western troop contingents withdraw completely, Russian soldiers fill the resulting vacuum," said the chairwoman of the Bundestag's defense committee to the news portal "watson". And the Russians are not there to make peace.

"Russia has an interest in terror and migration flows reaching Europe in order to destabilize Germany, among other things." escape movements to the north can come.”

The Union had called for a review of the German mission in Mali this week due to ongoing tensions with the Malian military rulers. In the country with its approximately 20 million inhabitants, around 1,200 German soldiers are on a mission that is currently considered the most dangerous by the United Nations.

Mali has experienced three military coups since 2012 and is politically extremely unstable. Since the most recent coup in May 2021, the country has been led by an interim military government. European states criticize their military cooperation with Russia.

Regarding future dealings with those in power in Mali, Strack-Zimmermann said: "We have to trust that the military will ultimately fight terror and not become part of it."

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